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"I know noble accents
And lucid, inescapable  rhythms"

----Wallace
Stevens
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at
Blackbird"

Issue 1 -
2008

Karen Kelsay

Karen Kelsey's poetry has been accepted by The
Christian Science Monitor, The Shepherd, The Oak, and
Love's Chance .

Karen Kelsay

A Bavarian Visit

Far from home you were, my friend,

but now you move across the hills,

subtly and in silent reverie, as though you

were a will-o'-the-wisp above the rolling
land.

This is your place of birth; I feel your

presence in the twilight, as boats upon lake

Constance glide toward the Swiss shore--but not
you.

See, here is Lindau:
it's still your own.

Surely, the harbor's lighthouse remembers you.

Are you aware of moon-tipped waves, lapping,

whispering at the shore, and alpine
meadows

fading into the growing night? Do you remember

our walks through these woods? Now, once again,

I must leave you and Bavaria. Where even

death cannot subdue your desire to
stay.

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